Pitch your biz and win a startup business bundle worth £10,000

Got a startup business idea? Want a bucket load of cash and gadgets to help get it off the ground? Well, we might have something for you…

We’re giving away £5000, an ultra-thin 27-inch iMac complete with Adobe Photoshop, a Canon 700D camera, and a professionallydesigned website to promote your product or service. Oh, and a business mentor to guide your startup on its way.

What’s the catch?

Tell us your business idea.

We want you to create a short video or image that sells what you do. Snap it, film it, design it, etch it, write it big on a piece of paper, sing it, make it out of apple cores, go crazy: give us your elevator pitch.

Maybe you’ve had a rough idea rattling around, a hobby you think can make you money, or you may already have a small business that needs an extra boost – whatever it is, we want to see it. The best one will get the bundle worth £10,000 to bring it to life.

Or you can start making a free shop or service website right now with Moonfruit for free or have it professionally built for you through KickStart.

Terms and Conditions

The competition is open to Moonfruit, Moonfruit partner and non-Moonfruit customers

The competition closes at 23:59 (GMT) on Monday 20 October 2014. Moonfruit reserves the right to change the closing date at its discretion

Maximum file upload size is 10MB

Employees, previous employees and the immediate families of moonfruit.com, their agents, or anyone professionally connected with this competition are not entitled to enter

Prizes are non-transferable. Moonfruit reserves the right to provide prizes of equivalent value should the stated prizes be unavailable at time of purchase

The £5,000 cash prize must be invested in the winner’s business or business idea. This will need to be evidenced through receipts / invoices or other reasonable paperwork of business and third-party costs accrued

Mentoring is provided by a third party, Biz Britain. Should the winner wish to continue with mentoring following the 10 hours provided as part of the prize, this must be negotiated directly with Biz Britain

The website prize will be built through Moonfruit’s KickStart package

The Moonfruit Max package will be provided for 36 months only. If the customer wishes to maintain the website after this point they must either pay the monthly or annual cost for the Max package or transfer their website to another pricing plan which may result in the loss of some features. Full details of Moonfruit packages is available at: www.moonfruit.com/pricing

The business ideas/businesses shown in the videos/images submitted must be the ideas of the entrant

Entrants must seek permission from all parties involved or shown in their entry before submission

During the competition, Moonfruit may approach entrants for further information about their business idea

By submitting your application, you are agreeing that Moonfruit has the right to use the content in their own promotional material. This includes, but is not limited to, sharing the content on its online channels and in marketing materials

All fields on the contact form must be filled out for the entry to be valid

The winner will be notified on or before Wednesday 29 October 2014 by email – this must be acknowledged by the winner, by email, within two weeks. Failure to respond to this email means an alternative winner will be selected from all entries

The judge’s decision is non-negotiable

Apple is not a participant or sponsor of this promotion

Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them

I’ve had a look on our system and cannot find the site address or the email address you linked to your post. You can either leave your Moonfruit username here so I can look in to it, or you can get in touch through support ticket or Facebook.

Two or three questions
Moonfruit . . . I am avoiding looking you up so a straight question . What doea moonfruit do ?
Second one . . . Does anyone think start up britain is achieving anything for real people
Third one. . . Does anyone know why social networking only works for the individual to boast about themselves rather than making a useful network for society. Such a shame. Imagine if a shed load of big hitters got together, with me as the boss , excellent !

We’re a free DIY website builder and can also build websites for you too.

You mention Startup Britain so I’m not sure if you mean BizBritain or the umbrella UK government backed start up loans project, but the latter is providing loans and mentoring to thousands of entrepreneurs across the country.

Social networks can be used in different ways: LinkedIn is a great platform for entrepreneurs, you can get advice and reconnect with former colleagues and tutors and Twitter has its place for businesses – when used sparingly. Instagram, Vine and others can all be good promotional tools too.

I would like to pitch my biz and enter the prize to win a startup business bundle worth £10000. The max. file upload size is 10MB. My video is 1GB, can I upload it on onedrive.live.com for you to access it? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Margaret

https://handbrake.fr/ has a download which enables you to compress/RIP the data in video. this YouTube video explains how it works; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10ARdfQUOY PLEASE NOTE, I have only just looked at solutions to this problem myself and haven’t yet attempted this as it’s mainly my audio that is upping my file size but in your case, it may be a solution.

Hey! I was wondering if Americans can enter. If they can, do they do do they get $8045.75 instead of the 5000 pounds? And they get everything else to right? Also, why is it only 10MB? If you uploaded a video, it could only be like 5 seconds! So can I just send a link to a video instead?

Yep we’re accepting entries from all over the world! Word of warning though: you may not be able to receive the mentoring portion of the prize as the company providing it supports UK residents only.

You can reduce the video file size if necessary with video editing software. With the links, we review case by case – unfortunately any Das Boot (director’s cut) length videos won’t make the shortlist.

Thanks Marcel – so will winner be announced today or around end of week. Our team are really excited after all the work we put in for the video – imagine you have plenty of great entries to work through.
Neil
The Golden Ticket